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The Hut Hamlet Neighborhood at Earthaven Ecovillage. An Origin Story.

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 16, 2021. Posted in Hut Hamlet, Natural Building. No Comments on The Hut Hamlet Neighborhood at Earthaven Ecovillage. An Origin Story.

Transcript from video Paul: I’m Paul Caron and I’m a resident of the Earthaven neighborhood which is called the Hut Hamlet The reason why it’s called the Hut Hamlet… It was originally called the neotribal village, there’s a story behind all that that I’m not gonna tell right...

Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on April 15, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Permaculture, Village Life. No Comments on Living Fences & Intergenerational Pruning at Earthaven Ecovillage

Transcript from video: Courtney: What are y’all doing? Zev: Stone’s giving me a sawdust snack. Pruning. Courtney: What kind of tree is that? Stone: Ash. Ah it doesn’t taste like ash though. Courtney: Ash. Zev: And we’ve been pruning black locusts and mulberries and this is...

Raised Beds Anyone?

Written by NikiAnne Feinberg on April 13, 2021. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Gardens, Permaculture. No Comments on Raised Beds Anyone?

There are many different ways to garden, from the no-work method of Ruth Stout to the double-dig method of John Jeavons. Most of us at Earthaven have our hands in the soil on some level, even if minimally. Our very own Dr. Monique Mazza seems to excel at everything she does. And gardening is...

Bio Char with Zev & Dimitri, at Earthaven Ecovillage

Written by Courtney Brooke on March 25, 2021. Posted in Gardens, Natural Building, Village Life. No Comments on Bio Char with Zev & Dimitri, at Earthaven Ecovillage

Dimitri: We’re at Earthaven Ecovillage with Zev Friedman in the Hut Hamlet neighborhood. We are now watering this char that’s made from bamboo in this Kon-tiki. Zev: Teensy micro Kon-tiki kiln, otherwise known as hickory nut pounding charcoal pounding vessel. Oh yeah..look at that beautiful...

Build it, and They Will Come

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on October 20, 2020. Posted in Medicine Wheel, Permaculture, Village Economics. No Comments on Build it, and They Will Come

By Deborah Clark, Medicine Wheel Collective Greetings from Medicine Wheel Collective! As summer rolls into fall, and wave after wave of change sweeps the wider world, we find ourselves deep in a season of change at Medicine Wheel. As the pandemic prohibited us from hosting our normal summer...

What does the creation of true wealth look like?

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 27, 2020. Posted in Farms, Gardens, Natural Building, Permaculture, Village Life. No Comments on What does the creation of true wealth look like?

Here are a few snippets of what we think it looks like around the village! (Photos from before and during COVID)

Building Sanity

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on September 15, 2018. Posted in Articles, Natural Building, Neighborhoods. No Comments on Building Sanity

written by Arjuna da Silva Learning to live together also means learning from one anothers’ mistakes. Learning to build with low budgets, limited time, and few professionals has been another learning curve. Still, quite a few successes in design and construction remain praiseworthy. Last issue...

Earthaven Tiny Housing Boom

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on August 3, 2018. Posted in Bellavia Gardens, Ecological Design, Hawk Hollar, Off-Grid Living, Persimmon Grove. No Comments on Earthaven Tiny Housing Boom

Simultaneously this year, three new members in three different neighborhoods are working on setting up their own unique versions of the tiny house. Near the front of the property, in the Forest Garden neighborhood, Liz Diaz and Joseph Rasband have just moved into their creation. Joseph built the...

The secret life of permaculture at Earthaven

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on July 3, 2018. Posted in Articles, Permaculture, Regenerative Agriculture, Village Life. No Comments on The secret life of permaculture at Earthaven

Patricia embraced our permaculture vision without reservation, and impressed hundreds of students and work exchangers, as witnessed by the turnout for her funeral. Meanwhile, the underpinnings and impact of those principles on everyone and everything we do at Earthaven might easily be taken for granted....

Some changes are hard to believe…

Written by Earthaven Admin Team on June 22, 2018. Posted in Conscious Dying, Medicine Wheel, Permaculture, Spirit and Culture. No Comments on Some changes are hard to believe…

Hard to believe this is our first newsletter since January, but it’s been busy and intense all around. Yes, another beloved senior member has taken her last journey—Patricia Allison left the planet (as far as we know) on March 19, after a relatively short bout with cancer. What we will do without...